[unreliableNar8r]

I wish them all the best in this but it seems like an uphill battle, and doesn't seem to have a clear use case to me. For lightweight to medium projects R and Python are so well supported it's hard to reject them as the null. If you're doing exploratory stuff and want visuals, it's the same story with Rmd and Jupyter. For more behind-the-scenes production pipeline stuff there is already Scala which has inroads with Spark. If you really want to use something new, Julia is starting to mature and has all sort of plotting and linear algebra support. To me it seems Go would aim more to compete with Scala I suppose? I suppose then it might come down to plotting.

In terms of being a general-purpose DS language, I can't imagine using anything that doesn't have a clear strategy to A) get a dataset into a DataFrame or similar, B) get my collaborators a plot in a way that is quick and easy, and C) a lesser extent, some kind of notebook/reporting tool.

They do say there is a lot of development going on but it seems like a space with a lot of great incumbents and a rapidly maturing up-and-comer in Julia.

edit: typo